Guardian: Not clear if ‘rock throwing dolls’ were heading to Palestinian Authority

The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont yesterday reportedon the seizure, by Israeli Custom officials, of thousands of stone-throwing dolls with keffiyahs saying “Jerusalem is ours” and “Jerusalem we are coming.”

Just in time for Christmas

The shipment, noted Beaumont, “was found last week hidden among other goods coming into the port at Haifa”, and was purportedly “shipped from a supplier in the United Arab Emirates.”

“These dolls were making their way to the Palestinian Authority with one clear purpose, and that was to poison the minds of innocent children. The Palestinians are continuing to incite their youth using any means necessary to educate them about violence and hatred. Here, it’s in the form of a doll.”

Beaumont then responded:

Despite her claim, it was not entirely clear who the recipient was intended to be.

However, multiple news reports on the incident cited Haifa Customs inspectors’ comments confirming that the dolls were indeed heading to the PA.

A report in USA Today on the row noted that Haifa Customs inspectors “found the dolls in a container that was supposed to hold rugs and plastic items shipped from the UAE to the West Bankvia Israel.“

Additionally, a NBC News report on Dec. 9th, more than a week before Beaumont’s piece was published, quoted the Head of Enforcement for Haifa Customs (Doron Samara) saying that “this shipment was intended to reach the Palestinian Authority“

Indeed, nobody even vaguely familiar with the PA’s ongoing campaign of incitementwould be at all surprised to learn that Palestinian children were the intended recipient.

Beaumont’s skepticism over the intended recipient of the dolls should be seen in the context of a larger pattern by which the Guardian downplays or ignores antisemitism and the glorification of violence within Palestinian society.

Despite his claims, it’s not necessarily clear if Peter Beaumont can be considered a logical human being. He is, after all, a shill for those who think justice will be found if they simply murder enough Israelis.

lets just nuke israel and surrounding areas and be done with it…..at first all the muslim hatred was because of land stealing and now muslims are killing palestinians and their own….nuke em all and give peace a chance

“Despite her claim, it was not entirely clear who the recipient was intended to be.”

What? It was only somewhat clear? Or what? What is this mealy mouthed apologist for Arab violence against Jews saying?
Sorry, Mr. Beaumont, for this bit of reality’s intrusion into you moral confusion.

What he’s actually saying is that he’s surprised that the dolls were shipped to the PA. They were supposed to be shipped to the Guardian and given out as Christmas presents to the employees. Now the children of Guardian journalists will have to be content receiving cheap Russel Hobbs knife sets.

One can imagine the scene, early Christmas morning, when the doting presents sneaks up on his or her sleeping child with a brand new….

Obviously the intended recipients are those who already have in their collection, ‘Burka Barbie’, and ‘Psycho Ken’ an action figure who runs around in black pyjamas wanting to behead anything that moves.